Is this it?

https://curry-recipes.co.uk/curry/index.php/topic,1175.0.html

SnS  ;D

Quote from: Admin on February 13, 2008, 11:19 AM
The Home Office is being urged to ease restrictions on migrant workers entering Britain from Bangladesh to help restaurants fill vacant posts.

What a load of twoddle. Probably initiated by our failing Labour party anyway (typical spin).

There's far too many immigrants here already (Asian or otherwise) who are sucking our benefit system dry. Many of these are quite capable of filling these spaces (if they exist). We do not need more immigration we just need to get those that can't be bothered working, off their backsides .. and that includes a lot of the white indigenous population  :-[

SnS 

Essential reading for all BIR fanatics.

The soft cover book is available from Amazon here (2005 version).

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Curry-Story-Nations-Favourite-Dish/dp/0750933755/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1202862284&sr=1-1

and hard cover (2003 version) here

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Curry-Story-Nations-Favourite-Dish/dp/0750933747/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1202865177&sr=1-2

SnS  ;D

Found it here

http://www.spicesofindia.co.uk/acatalog/Al-Noor-Pakastani-Bassar-Curry-Masala.html

Hi CA

I've got here 17 curry cook books, 3 spice books, 2 herb books, 5 hot & spicy "chilli" cook books,  and a number of Asian cookery books, and I can find no reference to Baasaar or anything close ... so I'm stumped.

SnS

Seems we're going here now ... https://curry-recipes.co.uk/curry/index.php/topic,2421.msg20907/topicseen.html#msg20907

Are we talking Baasaar or Baghar/Tadka?

Isn't it a general (non specific) term. (No spice mix in particular).

Baghar perhaps ? Meaning Tempering. (Tarka or Tadka).

Seasoning a dish with hot oil seasoned with spices?

Only word I know similar to Bassaar.

SnS  ;D

I'm reading a book I picked up during the weekend titled "Curry - Story of the Nation's Favourite Dish" by Shrabani Basu. Reprinted in 2003.

I've only just started reading it but it's full of interesting facts and figures.

EG:
1) Marks & Spencers sells over 18 tonnes of Chicken Tikka Masala each week.
2) Each year 2 Billion pound is spent in Indian restaurants (70 quid a second)
3) Two Indian restaurants in London have Michelin stars
4) A group of 10 Scottish football fans in Bordeaux became so homesick for curry they ordered a takeaway from the Eye of The Tiger in Bournemouth - delivered cost to Bordeaux was 1,400 quid. (you weren't one of them, were you Bobby?)

Has anyone else read this book?

SnS  ;D

Your neighbours must think they live next door to an Indian restaurant!

SnS  ;D